Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accompanying the official government crackdown on student dissenters are other incidents of more subtle political discrimination by the Washington Post...
...most important figures in the New Haven case: Sams because his testimony may send Seale to the electric chair, and Seale because his indictment turned the New Haven trial from an almost routine prosecution of a small Party Chapter-one of many such prosecutions in the nationwide crackdown on the Panthers which has been underway since Richard Nixon and Co. took over the operation of the nation's law-enforcement apparatus-into what may be one of the most important political trials in this century, a trial which black and white radicals alike contend forms an all-important, make...
...surge in overseas drug arrests of American travelers is largely the result of a crackdown by foreign governments. They are disturbed at the emergence of narcotics problems in their own countries. Furthermore, some widely publicized drug-connected horrors, particularly the Sharon Tate murders, have helped to erode whatever benign neglect traveling American hippies once enjoyed abroad. A few of the jailed Americans are professional smugglers, supplying the Mob in the U.S. "But most of them," says Cusack, "are not pros in the true sense. They have no records. They are users, and many of them are 'missionaries.' They...
...Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel was appalled. After inspecting 50 sq. mi. of oil slicks off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, he called the spill a "disaster" and started a federal crackdown on the cause-a cluster of twelve offshore oil wells belonging to Chevron Oil Co. A month ago they caught fire. The blaze was snuffed out last week. But as high seas prevented capping the wells, thousands of barrels of brown crude oil started to gush into the water, posing a threat to the Louisiana coast's wildlife refuges and rich oyster beds. Fortunately the slicks...
Last week Assistant Treasury Secretary Eugene T. Rossides gave the Nixon Administration's belated blessing to the means of crackdown proposed by Representative Wright Patman, in a bill designed to tighten the rules on foreign financial transactions. The measure, in its probable final form, will require U.S. banks to keep records of foreign transactions by their customers and to report unusually large withdrawals. Individuals will have to report all transfers of money exceeding $5,000 in or out of the country and open their own records of foreign bank accounts to Government inspection upon request...